July 13

1866 Four companies of the 2nd Battalion, 18th U.S. Infantry, under the command of Col. H.B. Carrington reached a point eight miles north of Fort Reno, on the waters of the Powder River and Tongue River, and established a military post. Before the troops had reached the new site, General Order 7, Department of the Platte, June 28, 1866, had officially named the post Fort Philip Kearny after Maj. Gen. Philip Kearny who was killed at Chantilly, VA on September 1, 1862.

1886 The Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad reached Lusk.